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Warnygo: Create & View Alerts For Emergency Situations In Your Area [WP7]

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There are many apps in the Marketplace, but only a fraction of them are meant for social welfare, which is what makes Warnygo for Windows Phone 7 a rare entry. The app allows you to help others, providing an opportunity to form a community in which everyone can contribute by reporting emergencies in their vicinity. The app is not just for emergency situations, though. You can use it for staying up to date with other incidents as well, such as a celebrity visiting your city, or a gig taking place nearby. More after the break. Read More

How To Set Any Image As The Splash Screen Of Your WP7 Device [Homebrew]

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Anyone who says that Android is the only platform that offers true customization obviously hasn’t used a jailbroken iOS device, or even a Windows Phone 7 with root privileges. The Mango platform might not be able to do everything an Android device can, but it has slowly started to catch up. We have covered quite a few Homebrew apps that are capable of doing some amazing stuff, and the latest to join the ranks of such apps is Splash Changer. There are many apps that let you do this for Android phones (like this one), but Splash Changer is the first WP7 app that lets you set any image as the splash screen of your rooted Mango phone (the screen that appears when your device boots up). Read on for details. Read More

EyeEm Is An Instagram-Like Photo Sharing & Styling App For WP7

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One of the most desired apps among Windows Phone 7 users is Instagram. Despite its popularity, there is no sign of its release for the Mango platform any time soon. No doubt, there are many third-party clients for Instagram available in the Marketplace, but you cannot publish or edit photos using them. Fortunately, now you might not have to wait for Instagram at all, as EyeEm is here. Some might call it a replica of Instagram; it does seem somewhat inspired from the photo-sharing giant's mobile clients. The basic functionality is the same, of course (you can beautify your photos and then share them with your social network friends and other EyeEm users), but the available filters are very different. Read More

Snotify: Turn Off SMS, Email & Toast Notifications On WP7 [Homebrew]

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If Microsoft allows all the stuff from Bazaar into the Marketplace, Windows Phone 7 can become a true competitor of other smartphone platforms. For now, if you tell someone about your Mango phone, they are mostly likely to say something like “isn’t that the phone in which you can’t even copy/ paste properly?” Although WP7 has come a long way since the copy/ paste update fixed that issue, there are still a lot of basic functionalities that are missing. Take a look at notifications, for an example - there is no way you can turn off notifications on your phone, and until recently, there wasn’t even any Homebrew app available for that. Not anymore, as Snotify is here. This homebrew brings the much-needed function of letting users turn off notification for SMS, email and other apps if you have root access on your device. Even a Homebrew with the ability to silence all notifications at once would have been pretty useful for most users, but Snotify goes a step ahead and adds the option to let users choose the individual alert types that they want to silence. Sounds cool? Read on for details. Read More

AppDetective Notifies You Whenever An App Of Your Choice Arrives In The WP7 Marketplace

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You can argue that Windows Phone 7 has got the best interface among all the smartphone platforms, but there is no denying the fact that the number of apps available in the Marketplace is nothing compared to the apps in Google's Play Store and iTunes App Store. We haven’t even got Instagram on the Mango platform, and Skype has been launched only recently. However, all that doesn’t mean that there is no development going on for WP7, as there are many apps that are to be released in the Marketplace in the near future. So, how will you come to know when Photosynth or Temple Run becomes available for WP7? You can keep searching the Marketplace each day, or you can use the much easier method of employing AppDetective to your service. With this handy little app, you have to specify your likes and wishlist just once, and it will notify you as soon as the official app, or even its third-party client, is launched in the Marketplace. Read More

Calculator2 Is A Programmable Scientific Calculator, Unit & Currency Converter For WP7

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If you look at the stock Calculator on offer in Windows Phone 7, you are sure to notice that it is pretty similar to the one in Android, and is not lacking in functionality and features at all. Holding the device in portrait mode gives you a simple calculator, while tilting it sideways allows you to switch to scientific calculations. You might not feel the need for any other calculator app in the presence of the stock app, but that is only if you use your phone for calculations on occasion. However, if you are a Mathematics student or a businessman, you might want to take a look at some of the third-party calculator apps available in the Marketplace. One of the best in this category is Calculator². The app is a complete calculation suite, and acts a tool for unit conversion in addition to being a programmable, advanced calculator. Read More

Photo Timeline Displays Your WP7 Photos On A Map & Calendar

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Apparently, the term “timeline” is a favorite among everyone these days. There used to be just a Twitter timeline previously, until Facebook adopted the idea as well. To be honest, arranging your online life in a chronological order does give things a more ordered and neat look, and maybe that’s why the idea has caught on with considerable success. Photo Timeline is an app for Windows Phone 7 that brings essentially the same concept to a much more basic level. The app arranges all the photos in the camera roll of your WP7 device according to the time they were snapped on. In Photo Timeline, each active day has its own slot, with all its photos stacked against it. The app also has menus to let you view your photos on its calendar, or on a map integrated within the app. Read More

Pepper For WP7: A Social Network For Discovering Music Gigs & Fun Events

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You can listen to a song on TV or PC as many times as you want, but nothing is quite like being in a concert and enjoying your favorite music with hundreds of other fans. As much as people enjoy concerts, it is a fact that it’s never easy to discover all such events in your vicinity. Most of us find out about planned gigs via social media, but won’t it be nice if there were a social network just for music events - one that you could carry around with you? If you are a Windows Phone 7 user, now there is! Meet Pepper, a Mango app which will let you connect with your music-loving friends, and keep you up-to-date with all the latest gigs and recreational events happening in your area. Not only that, Pepper also lets you follow your favorite artists, so that you always know where and when they are performing. Read More

CamSpeed: Test Focus & Shutter Speed Of Your Android Or WP7 Device’s Camera

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Easily one of the best camera benchmarks for Android and WP7 out there today, CamSpeed is not your average benchmark app highlighting the time it takes from pressing the shutter button to capturing an image. The apps measures variables such as Focus Time, Shutter Time and JPEG available. With mobile phone cameras catching up fast with digital cameras, with the pixels per shot and quality of sensors increasing year by year, the competition between the phones is heating up as well, and it always helps to try and roughly figure out how fast the camera on a device is. Comparisons are always fun; benchmarks, even more. And where most users gauge cameras by their results alone, others might want to take comparisons a step further, which is where CamSpeed comes in handy. Read More

RandomRingtone Automatically Changes Default Ringtone After Every 30 Minutes [WP7 Homebrew]

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I am one of those people who just loathe monotony, and a small testament to that is my habit of changing my WP7’s wallpaper every day. Since I have used an Omnia 7 for a long time, and that too with a custom ROM on it, I was pleased when Dynamic Background was released (you can read that Homebrew’s complete review here). Now, if you are interested in getting an app that does something similar for ringtones, one clever developer over at the XDA forum has got the perfect solution for you. RandomRingtone is a Homebrew that automatically changes your device's default ringtone after every 30 minutes. The app works on WP7 devices having root access, and should prove to be really handy if you have custom ringtones stored in your unlocked device. Read More

Trapster Brings Its Crowd-Sourced Navigation Assistance To WP7

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Trapster is a well-known name when it comes to navigation apps for smartphones. Unfortunately, the app didn’t have a Windows Phone 7 client till now. Happily, that changes this morning, and the official Trapster app for WP7 is now in the Marketplace. If you don’t know what Trapster is, the service is designed to help drivers in finding out all about the roads they are travelling on. Many maps apps can plan routes for users, but Trapster uses feedback from users to generate a more practical and realistic map, which highlights all the obstacles you might come across when driving through any area. Like all good navigation apps, Trapster supports audio instructions, and will alert you vocally whenever you are near an trap or obstacle. Read on for details. Read More

Bing Translator Now Allows Offline Translation Via Text, Speech & Camera [WP7]

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The quality of translation apps in the Window Phone 7 Marketplace is pretty good in general. In addition to a host of third-party apps from the genre, there is one developed by Microsoft itself. We are talking about the Bing Translator app, of course. This Mango app has been around for about as long as WP7 itself, but now Translator just became a whole lot better, to compete with apps like previously reviewed Babylon. Translator now has the ability to work offline for some languages, and lets you provide input in the form of text, through speech or by scanning an image of text using the camera using OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Imagine the usefulness of that feature, as now you can take your WP7 along on trips as your personal translator without having to worry about internet connectivity. After the break - an overview of the app's new and old features. Read More

How To Interop Unlock Nokia Lumia 710/800 & Flash A Custom ROM

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In the opinion of most Windows Phone 7 users, the Nokia Lumia series represents the best breed of WP7 devices. The awesome camera, form-factor and display of the Lumia 800 and 710 have gone a long way towards endearing Nokia’s Mango phones to the masses. Given the popularity of these devices, it makes sense that the developer community has been taking an active interest in finding an interop unlock method (or in simple terms, jailbreak) for the Lumia series. Fortunately, they seem to have stricken gold (or silver, for that matter). If you are lucky, Nokia sold you your device with an unlocked bootloader, paving the way for flashing custom ROMs and attaining interop unlock. Such bootloader is not to be found in all Lumia 800s, but the owners of Lumia 710 might be a whole lot more fortunate than that. Confused? Read on, and we will try to explain matters. Read More

Stream & Purchase MP3 Songs On Your WP7 Using The Official 7digital App

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There aren’t many services for Windows Phone 7 that have the potential to challenge the Zune music store, as for now, it remains the the number one place to purchase music if you have a Mango phone. When you look online, or even on other smartphone platforms, there are many stores which offer MP3 purchases. Not the least popular among these stores is 7digital. The service offers MP3 songs, albums and artist collections at pretty decent prices, and thankfully, they have now released their official WP7 client. Mango users have finally got a good alternative to the Zune store (not that it isn’t good in its own right). What’s more, the 7digital app comes with a music player of its own (background play is supported, of course) and will let you stream all of the songs, so you can get a preview before spending any money. If you are already a 7digital user, the app holds even more charm, and you can find out about that by heading past the break. Read More

Lumia Highlights: Get Tips, Tricks & Tutorials For Nokia Windows Phone

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Before the Lumia series was released, many people were calling it Windows Phone 7’s last hope. Although this is something of an exaggeration, as things weren’t that bad for the Mango phone, it is still nice to see how popular Nokia Windows Phone devices have become. The increase in any platform’s popularity always means one thing - there are a lot of new WP7 users, and many of them have never used a smartphone before. If you have been using WP7 for a considerably long time, you might be used to the workings of the Mango platform, but things can seem tricky for a lot of new users. Just a few days back, I had to explain to one of our readers, in great detail, the method for transferring songs to the device via Zune. Keeping such new users in mind, Nokia has launched a help app (much like Microsoft’s official Help+How-to) named Lumia Highlights. Even for experienced WP7 users, the app holds the charm of coming up with some really cool tips every once in a while. Read on to learn more. Read More

Beem For WP7: Stream Dance, Trance & Techno Music From DI.FM Radio

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A lot of people might disagree, but in my humble opinion Windows Phone 7 has got the best stock music player when it comes to smartphone platforms. However, Android and iOS have the advantage of having a host of third-party apps to replace the stock player, whereas the apps for Mango aren’t as good. Fortunately, WP7’s lack of good apps is being rectified gradually, and the Marketplace has become home to a number of well-developed apps. Beem is one such app that is not a music player, but rather a client for a radio broadcaster, DI.FM. Having said that, the app will let you listen to your favorite music, specially if you are a fan of trance or fast-paced music genres. The interface of the app is really good, and streams songs at a pretty efficient rate. Read More

Take Screenshots On WP7 & Transfer Them To PC Over Wi-Fi [Homebrew]

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No one is exactly sure why, but Windows Phone 7 makes a big deal about not letting any screenshot app slip into the Marketplace. This gets annoying on numerous occasions, and for us at least, the number one reason to be running a custom ROM on our Omnia 7, is the ability to take screenshots of the apps we review. So far only a handful of options exist if you want to take screenshots of your Mango phone, as you can read in our roundup of WP7 screenshot tools here. Now, WP Screenshot has become the newest addition to the rather short list of screenshot apps in WP7. However, WP Screenshot is no ordinary app, as it lets you do something which no other app has ever done before. This homebrew comes with a desktop client, and the screenshots you take with this app will show up straight on your PC, as long as both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network. Read More

WPH Tweaks: Customization Options For Unlocked WP7 Devices [Homebrew]

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Windows Phone Hacker’s new homebrew, Tweaks, might not be something like the previously released Bazaar for Windows Phone 7 devices, but the rather small collection of tweaks offered by this WPH app is pretty impressive in its own right. If you own a Mango phone that is interop unlocked, then there is no way you are not going to like this homebrew. Some of the tweaks offered by WPH might not be new, but some are, and even for older ones, it is nice to have them in one place, where you can use them with convenient toggle buttons. Read on to know everything about all the options WPH Tweaks brings to WP7. Read More

Trellizzo: Manage Projects & Share Tasks Using This WP7 Trello Client

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We have already covered the web version of Trello (complete review can be read here), and in addition to that, the service has also got an iOS client. As can be expected, there is not an official Windows Phone 7 version of this popular project management service as yet, but now you can manage your boards and tasks from your Mango phone using Trello’s third-party client, Trellizzo. This app might not be as comprehensive as the official one for iOS devices, but it should prove to be enough for most Trello users. With Trellizzo, it is possible to manage your boards, create new cards (a name for tasks used by Trello) and you can even view all your notifications along with other important Trello data on your account. Read More

FILLIB: Create Movies Wish List & Collection Log, Sync With Cloud [WP7]

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If you are a fan of movies and own a Windows Phone 7 device, then there are many apps which you might like in the Marketplace. We have covered quite a few of them already, like RemembeReel and DVD Collector. These apps are for avid movie collectors, and if you own a lot of film titles, then they can really come in handy. FILLIB is another Mango app which belongs to this genre. The app lets you create a database for movies you have watched at any time, and even those you wish to watch in the future. Once you have done that, it becomes possible to search through your collection via a number of extremely comprehensive filters. Read on to know more about Film Library (FILLIB). Read More